Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico said he “missed the mark” on his previous statement claiming there were six sexes during his first interview of the general election on Fox News.
“I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements,” Talarico said on The Story with Martha MacCallum. “I will be the first to admit it. What I meant is that there are two sexes, and then there’s a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. I obviously didn’t say it correctly. There are not six sexes. There are two.”
Talarico, who is locked in a tight Senate race against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, said the reason his prior comments had gotten so much attention was that Republicans did not want to talk about other issues, including “$6 diesel.”
“Everywhere I go across the state of Texas, people are struggling to survive in this economy,” he said. “They are struggling to afford the basics: Groceries, gas, utilities, healthcare, and that’s what I’m going to be focused on from now until election year.”
Talarico, a current Texas state representative, previously claimed there were “six sexes” during a debate in the state legislature over legislation banning biological men who identify as transgender from participating in female sports in K-12 schools.
“The bill seems to think there are two. The one thing I want us to all be aware of, recognize, is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six,” said Talarico, who has a master’s of education from Harvard University.
Talarico’s “six sexes” comment was not the only one he sought to clarify during the Fox News interview. The Senate nominee also admitted he “was being provocative” when previously stating that God is “non-binary.”
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“I was being provocative with that statement,” Talarico explained. “I get that. What I was trying to say is that you can’t use human categories to define God, and that’s not controversial theologically.”
The interview took place as the Republican National Committee’s 2026 midterm convention began in Texas. Paxton is slated to speak during Night 1.